Improvement in prepared paper for keeping off mosquitoes



J ULES BAQUOL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARED PAPER FOR KEEPING QFF MOSQUITO ES- Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 131,242, dated September 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, J ULEs BAQUOL, of. the city,.and county of Baltimoreand State of Maryland, have invented a new and Improved 7 Prepared Paperfor Keeping oif Mosquitoes;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact descriptionof the same.

The object of this invention is to cause mosquitoes to keep away fromhuman beings. The invention consists in a paper prepared with theingredients hereinafter described, which paper, when rubbed over anyportion of the body,leaves thereon a sufficiency of said ingredients tocause mosquitoes to keep away.

The paper aforesaid is prepared by first rub- I bing oviit with a spongea thick solution of camphor in alcohol. A sheet of paper thus prepared Iis covered with a sheet not so prepared, and this with another sheet ofthe prepared. paper. '1 A pile of sheets is thus built up,

every other one of which is rubbed with the camphor solution. This pileis subjected to a gentle pressure in any suitable press, and allowed toremain therein for forty-eight hours, after which it is taken out andeach sheet rubbed with a small quantity of oil of aniseseed, after whichit is vready for use in the manner aforesaid, and proves itself a mosteffectual article for the purpose. One application of the paper sufficesto keep mosquitoes away for twelve hours. The ingredients are in no wisedeleterious or unpleasant to any of the senses.

What'I claim as new is- As an article of manufacture, paper preparedwith a solution of camphor and oil of aniseseed, in the manner and forthe purpose described.

J. BAQUOL.

Witnesses lIIELVILLE CHURCH, O. F. BROWN.

